This list is comprised of potential head/assistant/support staff openings ... it does not mean that the assistant wouldn't necessarily stay on that staff, but with the head coaching change, it is an assumption at the moment that a new HC would hire their own staff.

Open Staff (Player/SA Development) Sports (9)
1. Arkansas - Dir of SA Development (Not Filled 17-18 )
2. Texas Tech - Dir of Player Dev
3. Michigan - Dir of Player Personnel
4. Texas - Dir of Player Development
5. Incarnate Word - Dir of SA Development
6. San Diego State - Dir of Player Development
7. Providence - Dir of Player Development
8. Chattanooga - Dir of SA Development
9. Colorado State - Dir of Player Development

Josh Keister, who has previous head coaching experience at Missouri Western and held a recruiting coordinator title while previously an assistant at TCU, will serve as head coach in the interim.

It's weird to see a mid-major, with little history of success, fire a coach midseason. There has to be something else going on here.

Fire? What's your basis for assuming the article is wrong?

It may be, but I'm just wondering what you know that isn't in the article.

The AD's quote in the article makes it pretty clear, IMO.

Quote:

"After meeting with him this morning Joey Wells has submitted his resignation as head women's basketball coach," Clinkscales said. "The team's competitive performance over the past three years and specifically its performance over the last year and half have not shown the progress that either Coach Wells or I had hoped. "

That is one of the most disgusting things I've read recently. I saw it last night on Twitter and thought "how effing juvenile!" I'd say his career in basketball, player development or otherwise, is toast.

_________________Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohows permanent.
It takes 3 years to build a team and 7 to build a program.--Conventional Wisdom

That is one of the most disgusting things I've read recently. I saw it last night on Twitter and thought "how effing juvenile!" I'd say his career in basketball, player development or otherwise, is toast.

Lake Erie College fired their longtime basketball coach, Bob Booher, along with the assistant coach Darren Jones. Graduate assistant Sarah Bonar is how the head coach and Sharday Baines has been added to the staff. (Not familiar with this school, assume they are D-II or D-III or maybe even NAIA, but I thought that was a pretty extreme step!)
https://whoopdirt.com/lake-erie-college-fires-womens-basketball-coach-bob-booher/

_________________Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohows permanent.
It takes 3 years to build a team and 7 to build a program.--Conventional Wisdom

Lake Erie College fired their longtime basketball coach, Bob Booher, along with the assistant coach Darren Jones. Graduate assistant Sarah Bonar is how the head coach and Sharday Baines has been added to the staff. (Not familiar with this school, assume they are D-II or D-III or maybe even NAIA, but I thought that was a pretty extreme step!)
https://whoopdirt.com/lake-erie-college-fires-womens-basketball-coach-bob-booher/

LEC director of public relations Michelle Kolk said Booher was dismissed for what she called "an unspecified violation of the employee handbook." She declined to elaborate further on the violation.

In a telephone interview with The News-Herald, Booher confirmed his firing and said Jones was not cited for any infraction. Booher said he was informed of his dismissal Jan. 22 by Kish and Andrea Myers, LEC’s director of human resources.

"I have no comment beyond saying this hit me out of left field," Booher said.

Sadly, he managed to keep the program in the basement of the ACC for his entire tenure. BC is sadly misplaced, however, and needs to get outtathere ASAP. They would be an excellent fit in any mid-major conference that plays football, and we'd welcome them in the CAA, where they could be a crosstown rival for Northeastern.

_________________Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohows permanent.
It takes 3 years to build a team and 7 to build a program.--Conventional Wisdom

His name has been mentioned in the various hot seat threads for the last couple of seasons so this really isn't a surprise. There's some crappy teams in the SEC with a lot of first second and third year coaches and somehow Insell managed to lose to all of them.

SEC is certainly brutal and I imagine Ole Miss is a tougher sell to recruits than say Vanderbilt or Florida (if you’re talking basement dwellers in the league right now).

Who gets the Ole Miss job? Do you look for experience in the league and give a veteran another shot like Amanda Butler or Susie Gardener? Or an up and comer like Carly Thibault? Time to call up a Gillom sister?

I'm not sure it's completely wackadoodle. Barron was previously an AC at Baylor and NC State, and HC at Princeton. He took over the Maine women's program after Cindy Blodgett had run it into the ground and turned it around completely. Then he developed severe vertigo, could no longer coach, was eventually diagnosed with a skull fracture involving the inner ear which required a craniotomy to repair. He was out for about a year, and when he was able to return to work, the Athletic Dept gave him a job as a "special asst" to the AD.

Now the men's team coach just quit with a 4-year record of 24-100. UMaine needs somebody who is willing to live there and who can turn a disaster around. Hopefully there are some assistants available who have the right recruiting connections. Kudos to him if he's successful.

What about Johnnie Harris? She has two national title games and one championship under her belt (A&M), and has helped Vic Schaefer get the right players to bring MIssissippi State to prominence...and she’s familiar with Mississippi and the south overall...